If you dream of missing something and spend a portion of your dream searching for it, it can mean you are really missing that thing in waking reality. If you know that you have not lost that article, then your dream is about another message. It can be pointing to the fact that you are insecure, and that was why you dreamed about missing something and not finding it. You may have experienced changes in your life and you were deeply affected by changes and the feeling of temporary phase. When you lack security of well-being and the confidence of permanent setting, your mental and emotional state may lack stability. You think and feel something is missing.